Tag: BOBST

Bobst Manchester has planned an Open House at their Competence Centre in Heywood, England on 18 October 2016. The event will see the unveiling of the Bobst K5 Expert vacuum metallizer. The K5 Expert is the next generation of the popular K5000 platform and can run at speeds up to 1,200 m per minute.

Mumbai-based cartons solutions provider Okay Papers Products has been meeting the demands of a  variety of industries—healthcare, pharmaceuticals, agro-chemicals and FMCG. It operates from its Vasai plant, which has state-of-the-art infrastructure. To complement its press department, which is equipped with offset presses from Heidelberg, it has been investing in Bobst technologies in the recent past. In 2013, the company bought Ambition 76 A1 folder-gluer and last year it invested in Novacut 106 diecutter. In the postpress department, apart from the Novacut, it has also two retrofitted Heidelberg cylinder diecutters and two Platen die punching machines.

With an annual average growth rate of over 30%, Vasai-based Duralabel Graphics has had a great run in the past few years. The 8-color Mark Andy 2200 press that the company was employing since 2011 was not sufficient to meet the increasing workload. It was time to enhance the print capacity. In early 2016, Ravi Patnaik, owner of Duralabel decided to invest in a Bobst M4 8-color flexo press. The press was supplied by Reifenhauser India and was installed in April.

Bobst will present an advanced range of technology and process solutions in printing and converting for the global label industry at Labelexpo Americas in Rosemont, ILL, USA, from 13 to 15 September 2016. Star of the show on Bobst’s stand will be the digital flexo process which will be demonstrated on the Bobst M6 mid-web inline UV flexo press. The advantages of digital flexo, which is part of Bobst Digital Automation programme, are unique in making the press operation fast, flexible and reliable, allied with a consistently superior quality of the output and the lowest total cost of ownership.

Kodak showed 20 new technologies and products at drupa but there are two or three main themes that one has to keep sorting out when referring to its overall presence at the show. The first is Kodak’s announcement a few weeks before the show that it was pursuing the sale of its Prosper Enterprise Inkjet Division because it did not have the extensive capital and other resources to market this technology. The company said at its drupa press conference that there were several suitors looking to buy its Enterprise Inkjet Division.

In order to meet the increasingly demanding standards in the flexible packaging industry for barrier applications and products with longer shelf-life, Bobst has developed DarkNight, a unique and innovative process to produce high barrier metallized films through its K5000 and K4000 vacuum metallizing platforms.